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Field Visit

Date June 1979

Event ID 1131628

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1131628

Mains of Kilcoy 1 NH 577 519 NH55SE 5

This cairn, measuring 14.3m by 11.9m and 4m in height, stands 630m NNE of Mains of Kilcoy farmhouse and 190m SW of the chambered cairn NH55SE 6. It was partially excavated in 1961-2, and what was probably a previously-robbed cist, fragments of cremated bone and a quern (now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland) were found.

RCAHMS 1979, visited June 1979

Woodham 1956, 73, no. 12; DES, 1960, 35; 1961, 45

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